Search Results: Authors starting with E from Browsing Is Arousing

Baltimore MD: Gateway Press, 2002. 1st. Softcover. Very Good/None. Softcover. 272 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the title page. 226 men with ties to College Point, New York took part in the Civil War. They served in 82 different Army units, and in the Navy, both on land and on sea. They were infantry men, engineers and artillerists, and one was a musician in the Marine Band. The majority claimed Germany as their country of birth, and 24 died in the service of their adopted homeland. This Gunner at His Piece tells their stories, before, during and after the American Civil War. Clean copy. Record # 382511

NY: Columbia University Press, 1989. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on the red front fly leaf. With penetrating insight Combs-Schilling illuminates the remarkable survival of one of the world's oldest monarchies, still ruling after 1200 years. The author unravels the paradox of this ancient yet progressive institution that has weathered invasion, economic collapse, and colonial assault. The pillars of stability for which political analysts typically search -- military strength, bureaucratic control, and commercial prosperity -- have often been absent in Morocco, sometimes for centuries. How then has the monarchy stood firm? In this remarkable book, Combs-Schilling argues that the answer is to be found in the distinctive forms of ritual practice developed during times of great crises. Unique among Islamic governments, the Moroccan monarchy became cnetral to the popular celebrations of the most sacred rituals of Islam, cloaking itself in… Read More

Seattle: Fantagraphics Books, 2008. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Hardcover, 168 pages illustrated in color and b&w. Fantagraphics's third volume collecting Segar's original Popeye (Thimble Theatre) covers 1932-1934 includes the never-republished extra-large strips set at the Chicago World's Fair and an insightful scholarly essay by Donald Phelps. Record # 360711

Seattle: Fantagraphics Books, 2008. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Hardcover, 168 pages illustrated in color and b&w. Fantagraphics's third volume collecting Segar's original Popeye (Thimble Theatre) covers 1932-1934 includes the never-republished extra-large strips set at the Chicago World's Fair and an insightful scholarly essay by Donald Phelps. Record # 351968

Seattle: Fantagraphics Books, 2007. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Hardcover, 168 pages illustrated in color and b&w. Fantagraphics's second volume of the acclaimed hit series collecting the entirety of E.C. Segar's original Popeye (a.k.a. Thimble Theatre) comic strips begins with a foreword by Beetle Bailey creator Mort Walker, and continues with an introduction by noted film and cartooning critic Donald Phelps. This second volume features work from 1930 to 1932, and most notably includes the debut of Segar's second greatest character: J. Wellington Wimpy, which stands as a one-of-a-kind icon some 70 years after his creation - the most likeable lowdown cad ever to grace the comics page. Popeye Volume 2 includes the stories: "Clint Gore" (continued from the cliffhanger last volume); "A One-Way Bank," in which Popeye opens a bank that allows withdrawals but no deposits; a long war story featuring King Blozo that begins with "The Great Rough-House War"; and "Skullyville," which wraps up the daily… Read More

Seattle: Fantagraphics Books, 2008. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Hardcover, 168 pages illustrated in color and b&w. Fantagraphics's third volume collecting Segar's original Popeye (Thimble Theatre) covers 1932-1934 includes the never-republished extra-large strips set at the Chicago World's Fair and an insightful scholarly essay by Donald Phelps. Record # 360712

West Orange NJ: Warthog Press, 1980. 1st. Softcover. Very Good. Softcover, 55 pages. B&w illustrations by Susan Micklem. INSCRIBED BY EADY on the title page. In lightly worn tan wrappers. Record # 373423

Fort Worth, TX: Amon Carter Mseum , 1996. 1st wraps. Paperback. Very Good/None. Softcover, 152 pages. 2l color, 83 B&W plates. Edited by Doreen Bolger and Sarah Cash. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. Examines a single painting that is now widely regarded as an American masterpiece: Swimming, completed in 1885 by the Philadelphia artist, Thomas Eakins (1844-1916). Record # 303051

Fort Worth, TX: Amon Carter Mseum , 1996. 1st wraps. Paperback. Very Good/None. Softcover, 152 pages. 2l color, 83 B&W plates. Edited by Doreen Bolger and Sarah Cash. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. Examines a single painting that is now widely regarded as an American masterpiece: Swimming, completed in 1885 by the Philadelphia artist, Thomas Eakins (1844-1916). Record # 371649

Philadelphia, PA: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2001. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 488 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy still in publishers shrink-wrap. Lavishly illustrated with more than 250 of Eakins's most significant paintings, watercolors, drawings, photographs, and sculpture, the book features essays by prominent scholars who place his art in the context of the history and culture of late nineteenth-century Philadelphia, where he lived. Record # 353115

New Haven CT: Yale University Press, 2005. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Hardcover, 126 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Thomas Eakins wrote and illustrated this drawing manual for students, based on his famous lectures at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. After his forced resignation in 1886, Eakins abandoned plans to publish the manual. The manuscript and illustrations remained in his studio, where they were recovered after the death of the artist's widow in 1988. Published here for the first time, the drawing manual offers readers a unique opportunity to meet Eakins in his own words. Record # 350490

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1973. 2nd pr.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 346 pages, b&w illustrations. Argues that Cook actually did beat Peary to the pole and the assault against Cook was largely led by Peary and his cadre. Clean, bright copy. Record # 385026

Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996. reprint. Softcover. Very Good/None. Softcover, pictorial wraps, 490 pages. By explaining how to sire multicolored horses, produce nuts without shells, and create an egg the size of a human head, Giambattista Della Porta’s Natural Magic (1559) conveys a fascination with tricks and illusions that makes it a work difficult for historians of science to take seriously. Yet, according to William Eamon, it is in the “how-to” books written by medieval alchemists, magicians, and artisans that modern science has its roots. These compilations of recipes on everything from parlor tricks through medical remedies to wool-dyeing fascinated medieval intellectuals because they promised access to esoteric “secrets of nature.” In closely examining this rich but little-known source of literature, Eamon reveals that printing technology and popular culture had as great, if not stronger, an impact on early modern science as did the traditional academic disciplines.… Read More

Tokyo: Sophia University, 1970. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 210 pages, b&w illustrations. Beige cloth spine with patterned boards and a bright dust jacket with a glassine wrapper. Record # 351184

New York : Japan Society, 2009. 1st. Softcover. Very Good/None. 96 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. Record # 350027

Chapel Hill, N.C.: Algonquin Books, 2001. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover, 172 pages, with SIGNED BOOKPLATE BY THE AUTHOR laid-in. Spotless and tight copy. Record # 456002

Boston: Little Brown, 1994. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY EARLEY on the title page during the Breadloaf Writer's Conference in Vermont in 1997. Record # 358855

NY: Franklin Watts, 1985. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover. Bright dust jacket with only minor wear. Light spots to top edge otherwise clean & unmarked. A nice copy. Record # 56953

London: Ellis Horwood, 1980. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. 580 pages, like new condition. No dust jacket. Record # 809264

Burlington, VT: Chauncey Goodrich, 1836. 1st . Softcover. Very Good/None. Hardcover. Containing some account of proceedings during protracted meetings, held under his direction in Burlington, Williston & Hinesburg, VT Dec. 1835 and Jan. 1836. 119 pages. Wear to cardboard covers. Orignal boards, green cloth spine with label. Record # 300403